Racquet

At first it started out as something to do with my friends, but soon became a hobby and passion of mine as I learned more about the game. Tennis is a sport that involves two players hitting a ball back and forth across a net to each other using a racquet. It may sound simple, but decades have passed since the game was created and has given people time to turn the game into a highly competitive, fast-paced battle between two extraordinary athletes at the professional level. In order to reach such…

Leaving the Park In the spring of my seventh grade year, I exercised my final season of eligibility of little league baseball. Just avoiding the cutoff date by a week, I would be one of the few thirteen year olds to take the field. It would also be my first year of making the all – star team, a goal I had since I had first entered the major league division of Shaker Valley Little League three years prior. As a starting pitcher, I was pretty confident that I would finally get the chance to show…

1) The authors Leonard and Anthony conducted the study weapons as aggression-eliciting stimuli because they wanted to see if weapons are linked to aggression in the human brain, since past research, such as the one conducted by Loew in 1965 called the Learning Task showed that aggressive words evoke aggressive behavior. Therefore, they wanted to see if the presence of a weapon would as well evoke aggression. They also conducted the study due to societal issues in the real world that have shown…

to play tennis. However, I re-titled it into “Or So I Had Tennis” because I thought the title uncovers my current relationship with tennis, which is my retirement as a competitive tennis player. I decided to end my essay by storing away my tennis racquets and leaving them behind as I drive off to a new beginning to show that I am more than an athlete. In my essay, I wanted to clearly show the ups and downs I had as a tennis player. To portray my inconsistent attitude towards tennis, I utilized…

The Booted Racket-Tail Have you ever heard of the Booted Racket-Tail? You probably have not heard of this creature. The Booted Racket-Tail is a colourful, amazing bird. Another name for the Booted Racket-Tail is Racket-Tailed Puffleg. The scientific name for this bird is Ocreatus underwoodii. The Booted Racket-Tail goes under the category of hummingbirds. Keep reading to learn more! The body of a male Booted Racket-Tail is green. They also have two long, shiny blue tails that spin to make the…

Film authorship is represented in the work by the two Italian Auteurs; Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini. When considering the concept of film authorship, the director has complete creative control which enables him/her to make it their own and by doing this the director creates their own style that is seen in their work. This can be true for any director that has produced multiple films; after viewing two films by the same director you should see a certain type of style through…

Throughout my time at university, I have had the opportunity to be a member and captain of the Skidmore Women’s Tennis Team. My time spent on the team has been a rewarding and inimitable experience, allowing me to become a leader and mentor to my teammates as well as throughout the college. To explain more comprehensively my own personal characteristics that make me an excellent candidate for Queen’s Law, I wanted to give you a glimpse into a moment that I think exemplifies the qualities that…

colour in the background changes drastically, from muted-cold tone of grey to very vivid and bright orange. The sound of conversation also noticeably fades, and the sound of the game intensifies instead, such as the sound of the ball hitting the racquet, the shoes’ contact with the red clay court, and the quick breathing of the two players. These two young men embody carnal desire and pleasure which hold George’s attention for a while; the promise of how interesting life could be if he decides…

Birth of a Legend : Leander Paes at the Atlanta Olympics “All I can promise is that every time I go on court I will give my best effort.” It is as simple as that for the 43 year old Indian tennis legend. But to do it for 25 years on professional tour is not that simple. It takes character to sustain for that long, it takes guts to compete every single day and it takes courage to believe you can still go on. Leander Paes is an inspiration. He is a role model for all the children growing up in…

The cacophony of alarms chiming simultaneously in the average nursing unit creates an environment of resistance to the noise due to the necessity to focus amongst the racquet. Alarm fatigue directly limits the effectiveness of any fall prevention program based on the use of bed or chair alarms, which should in turn lead hospitals towards a policy of reduction in quantity to improve quality of use of alarms overall.…